Posted July 26, 2010 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Eugenia Bone, author
This year, the Bonfils-Stanton Series has enjoyed a great deal of success by drawing a large audience. And its terrific to see some of that success go to a Colorado author whose work appears in the Denver Post and the New York Times. This Thursday, July 29, Eugenia Bone speaks on The Kitchen Ecosystem at Denver Botanic Gardens at 7:00 p.m.
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Posted June 15, 2010 by Anna Sher, Director of Research & Conservation
Volunteers plant at the Bluff Lake Nature Center.
Denver Botanic Gardens has been involved in restoration of damaged ecosystems around the state of Colorado through its Research and Conservation programs for at least a decade, but none have been quite as satisfying as the one at Bluff Lake Nature Center.
“Over the past four years Bluff Lake Nature Center staff and volunteers have removed hundreds of Russian Olives and numerous tamarisk from around the site and along Sand Creek. We estimate that within the next two years Bluff Lake will be completely free of these invasive tree species,” says Bluff Lake Site Manager (and former Denver Botanic Gardens horticulturalist) Chris Story.
THE HISTORY:
The partnership between the two organizations began in 2003 when the Research Department at Denver Botanic Gardens was looking to put volunteers on
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Posted June 14, 2010 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
Denver Botanic Garden's green roof
This is the week for the Green Roof for the West Symposium! On Thursday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Denver Botanic Gardens opens its doors to a regional conference with international speakers. The Gardens and its co-hosts (the U.S. Green Building Council – Colorado Chapter, Colorado State University and UC-Denver College of Architecture and Planning) have been looking and working towards a reprise of last year’s sucess. This year promises to be as forward-thinking and informative as the first ever symposium, also held at the Gardens. The registration price is $125 for the entire day, and current students with valid ID pay only $30. Includes continental breakfast, box lunch and beverages.
The symposium will feature a full day of in-depth sessions, presented by leading green roof experts and designers from across the U.S. and around the world.
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Posted May 25, 2010 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
I’m eating lunch right now. (That’s part of the reason there is no picture: you don’t need to see me chewing.) And this sandwich is my payoff for being attentive to my gardening. It might seem to be just a leftover from dinner last night, but I know it includes the first harvest of homegrown spinach for the year. Its fun to grow plants for their beauty, or the composition of the garden overall, but there’s a special satisfaction that comes with the first harvest of something edible.
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Posted May 21, 2010 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
Denver Botanic Gardens and Kaiser Permanente have created a first-of-its-kind community supporting agriculture (CSA) program. The community farm will provide fresh local produce to Colorado families.
Made possible through a three-year, $500,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente, the CSA will operate as a community farm at Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield—located at C-470 and Wadsworth Blvd. in Littleton. Shares of the CSA are sold to members of the public who then receive portions of the garden’s fresh produce during the harvest season, from June through October.
This new venture marks an important milestone: The Gardens is the first botanical garden in the country to operate a CSA program of this scale.
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Posted May 17, 2010 by Matt Cole, Director of Education
David Salman of High Country Gardens
David Salman has plenty to keep him busy. There are plants to tend, businesses to run, articles and blogs to write (and if you read his blog, there’s a rescued puppy named Jarrah who’s always ready to play), and certainly an appreciative audience anywhere there are gardeners in the west. We are so fortunate to have him join us in Denver for “Inspired by Mountains and Plains: Redefining the Well-Adapted Regional Garden” Friday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Its a story familiar to anyone whose left lush gardens behind to move into the west: rocky mountain gardening is profoundly different. While many mail order nurseries can send you a plant across the country, their experiences and catalogue descriptions aren’t usually calibrated for a mile high and western dry. David Salman started High Country Gardens to be the mail order division of Santa Fe Greenhouses, his retail nursery company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He tapped in to a desire for plants appropriate to western climates. And it seems he’s quite good at it.
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Posted May 11, 2010 by Isabel Werner, Development Coordinator
In today’s modern world, one would think that the advent of technology like computers, scanners, and digital files would reduce our production of waste in the world. And in many ways, it has. However, the more technologically advanced we’ve become, it becomes more obvious that the waste we produce isn’t going anywhere quickly.
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Posted April 20, 2010 by Doris Boardman, Web Technology Manager
Denver B-cycle rolls out this week, and the Mile High City will never be the same. The program launches on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22. The York Street B-Station will be one of 45 to 50 stations with 500 bikes spread across the city. Visit the Denver b-cycle website for more info or to join.
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